DRAON : An Intelligent Local Area Network
Tadashi Ae, Tetsuya Toi, Reiji Aibara, Noriyasu Takahashi · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · 1984
This paper discusses the desig and fabrication of a local area network which keeps distributed systems off from system deadlocks in resource sharing with low overhead. We propose an Intelligent Network that extends the network concept in its communicaion capability. This intelligent network provides the upper layer protocols, such as transport protocol and session protocol which are normally carried out by host computers, and offers deadlock-free resource access method to its elient, i.e., a distributed operating system. The design specification of DRAON, which is a kind of entirely distributed controlled intelligent networks, is briefly introduced. DRAON ia a network of intelligent nodes each of vhich performs communication procedures with high performance, and resource lock/unlock operations in an inborn manner. Finally, a experimental resource sharing system using a prototyp-DRAON is presented as an example of applications of loosely coupled distributed computing systems.